Jorge made his pilgrimage with his family, with his partner and his daughter of only a few months old. His partner is French and he is Spanish, and they met on the Camino in 2005. For him it was his second Camino, he had already done it in 2004....
Memory of the pilgrimage
Endika. Spain. 2018
Endika is from Navarre and lived 35 years alone, in the mountains, having the beach very close - about 20 kilometers - but he lived and always went to the mountain. As a child, at night, he saw the Milky Way with his grandfather and asked him about...
André. Brazil
In his youth he lived for years with his wife in Germany but never knew anything about the Camino. It was only years later when he returned to Europe for retirement when he discovered it. It was 1991, he travelled to Spain with his wife, to...
Kristine. United States of America
She came from the United States with a friend. They both started their Camino together but afterwards they walked a large part of the journey separated, each of them trying to live his own Way. The idea of doing the Camino was hers. She knew the...
Laura. United States of America
This has been her first Way. She already knew about the Camino de Santiago through films and a documentary she had seen, but it was a friend - with whom she eventually came to Spain - who was responsible for suggesting the Camino as a real...
Mario. Spain. 2018
In October 1987 he travelled often to Lugo, where he would cross paths with lean backpackers, who were making their weary way up to Lavacolla : these were the pilgrims of 1987. He learned the peregrinero cry, ultreia eia eia !, Up and up !, It was...
Mark and Jeanette. Canada
Mark and Jeanette remember that their first encounter with the Camino was they were at a family reunion and one of Jeanette’s cousins was talking about a pilgrimage walk that she had gone on with a friend. At that time they did not know anything...
Sylvia. Germany. 2019
In 2016 Sylvia decided to separate from her husband. They had been together for 25 years but they were not happy and at that moment she decided that it was not possible to continue like this and she left her husband. Her husband was a very...
Antonio. Spain. 2018
He knew about the existence of the Camino from a very young age. He is the son of Galician emigrants to the United States, but in summer he came on holiday to his hometown: Esteiro. On one of those occasions, when he was 7 years old, a cousin took...
Steve. United States of America
He is 52 years old and a journalist, a journalist with 30 years of experience in the press and magazines. For most of his life and professional career he avoided defining himself as a Christian. He believed in the Bible, he was a person with...
Tove. Denmark-Australia-China
She was born in Denmark in a very poor family of children, she was the 12th. Her parents were workers with scarce resources and they were not given an education, none of the children had access to an education. They lived in a small, two-roomed...
Paolo. Italy
Paolo has done the Camino 18 times. The first was in 1995. He started it for several reasons: he had religious motives, he was curious and that year his father had died. What he learned from his first Way was to be humble and be available to...
Adela. Spain
My name is Adela and I am a 40 year old woman from Madrid. I have done the Camino alone 5 times since 2015. There were different routes and durations but there is one common denominator: the Camino has always given me what I needed at that time. FIFTH WAY. MOLINASECA....
Marisa. Spain
I always wanted to do the Camino de Santiago and, although at first I had no special reason, I wanted to live that experience and the moment came in 2006. I left Roncesvalles, attended the mass and blessing of the pilgrim at the Collegiate Church, and the next day I...
The Camino in the time of Covid: the pilgrimage of Lorenzo Merín in june 2020
Lorenzo Merín is one of those pilgrims for whom the Camino has changed life, someone who never tires of saying that the pilgrimage to Santiago is the best therapy, because he knows full well what that means. In addition, he is a pilgrim who, through what he considers...
Alina. Romania
I am Alina from Romania, I was around 20 years old when I first heard about the Camino de Santiago. It was on TV, a presenter of a television program recounted her experience of the Camino, it fascinated me and at the same time I admired her act of courage: to go...
Steffen. Germany
I started travelling the Camino in June 2010, after a moment of personal crisis. I was ruined financially and my girlfriend had thrown me out of her apartment. I had a car and slept in that by the river, in Hamburg. I had no more than 500 euros left, I had lost...